Pickering pot grower kidnapped, robbed

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PICKERING -- A medical marijuana user was abducted and roughed up by suspects intent on obtaining his crop, police say.

One suspect has been arrested in connection with the incident, which began at about 7 p.m. last Friday when the victim, a 22-year-old Pickering man, was abducted as he walked home from the Pickering Town Centre, Durham police said.

Several suspects forced the victim into the back seat of a car, beating him and demanding to know where he kept his marijuana, police said.

The man was robbed of his personal belongings and dropped off on Orchard Road in Ajax. He made his way to a relative's house and called police, but by that time his Pickering apartment had been ransacked, police said.

The victim, a licensed medical marijuana user, was treated for minor injuries at hospital. A police investigation led to the arrest of a suspect as he left a Pickering restaurant at about 4:20 a.m. Tuesday.

Jon Miller, 30, of Marshcourt Drive in Pickering, is charged with kidnapping, robbery, breach of probation and driving while under suspension.